Comments are what make blogs different from a Web site. The opportunity to interact and converse with the creator of a Web site and with other readers is almost unique to blogs. Visitors to a blog can[more…]

You can find help with all aspects of your WordPress.com blog from the WordPress Web site. Look for information about how to use WordPress.com, or have your specific questions answered, by checking out[more…]

Several talented consultants can help you get your WordPress MU and BuddyPress community up and running with some custom programming and design work. The following table lists these consultants and provides[more…]

Installing WordPress is a multi-step process that involves setting up your MySQl database, uploading the WordPress installation files and finally running the install script. By the time you’re finally[more…]

In WordPress, a category is what you determine to be the main topic of a blog post. Through the use of categories, you can file your blog posts into topics, by subject. To improve your readers’ experiences[more…]

To make your WordPress blog reflect your personality, you might want to control the colors your blog uses. The Twenty Ten WordPress theme is packaged with an option that allows you to change the background[more…]

A lot of people use their blog as the first page of their Web site, but your blog may not be the first thing you want site visitors to see. If you want your WordPress blog on your site but don’t want to[more…]

You can create separate sidebar templates for different pages of your site by using a simple includestatement. When you write an includestatement, you’re simply telling WordPress that you want it to include[more…]

WordPress makes it possible to pull in very specific types of content on your Web site through the <query_posts> template tag. If you have a category called WordPress, and you want to display the last[more…]

If you have determined that you need to maintain multiple blogs you have to enable the WordPress Multisite features and then prepare your Web server to handle the WordPress Multisite. You must make a decision[more…]

WordPress widgets are very helpful tools built into the WordPress.com application. Widgets allow you to easily arrange the display of content in your blog sidebar, so you can arrange and display the content[more…]

Whether you're producing your own videos for publication or want to embed other people's videos that you find interesting, placing a video file in a blog post has never been easier with WordPress.[more…]

WordPress offers four main templates to create your own theme. You can also edit the template tags in the theme you're currently using. Those four main templates are Header, Main Index, Sidebar, and Footer[more…]

Some Web hosts now offer a one-click installation process for WordPress.org. If your host doesn't, you can do a manual install of WordPress on your Web server. Download the latest version of the[more…]

You have the ability to arrange the order of the modules in your Dashboard to suit your tastes. WordPress places a great deal of emphasis on user experience and a big part of that effort results in your[more…]

The Network feature in WordPress allows you, the site owner, to add and maintain multiple blogs within one installation of WordPress. With the network features enabled, users of your network can run their[more…]

Before you can set up your network you must enable the WordPress Network feature and decide whether to go with the subdomain or subdirectory. If you have completed those steps, the rest of the steps in[more…]

You can install a plugin in your WordPress.com blog by using the built-in Plugins feature. The auto-installation of plugins from within your WordPress administration panel only works for plugins that are[more…]

New releases of WordPress occur roughly every 120 days. Don’t be discouraged or frustrated by the number of times you’ll upgrade your WordPress installation. Each upgrade improves security and adds new[more…]